October 7, 200817 yr Hi, This might be a silly question. If one of the data drives (not the parity drive) fails...in theory the data is 'safe' as it can be rebuilt from the parity as soon as the disk is replaced. However, during the period between failure and a new drive being inserted is the data on the disk still accessable (ala raid 5?) I'd expect a performance hit and obviously you'd be running degraded, but is this possible? or is it a case that the disk is entirely removed from the array and you will only get the data that was on it back when you insert a new disk and rebuild from parity?
October 7, 200817 yr During the period between failure and a new drive being inserted is the data on the disk still accessable (ala raid 5?) Yes. and depending on your hardware, the temporary performance hit may not even be that noticeable. One of my drives was down for 2 days and the performance hit was not noticeable with regular usage.
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